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Monday, 3 December 2012

Controlling Interest

A great line has just been uttered by Jonathan Reynolds MP: "No one
wants State control of the media, but what we have long had in this country has
been closer to media control of the State."

Not before time, parliamentary sovereignty is being reasserted. More,
please. Next up, the City.

Let the message go out loud and clear to the media moguls and the money men,
to the EU and the US, to Israel and the Gulf monarchs, to China and the Russian
oligarchs, to separatists and communalists, to the Executive and the Judiciary.

12 comments:

All the more reason that freedom-loving people should deny it to them.

Great Peter Hitchens piece today reveals that a hidden clause in Leveson which lets "groups" as well as individuals make submissions to the regulator, will be a lobbyists dream and allow powerful PR lobbies to hold the media to ransom.

Then it should worry you because it is true. That clause allows groups to make representations over any issue over anything they feel the media has misreported. Every vested interest, from Big Pharma to Stonewall, will jump all over that clause.

The media, for all their faults, have relentlessly and continuously exposed the horrific corruption of the political classes, from John Major's sleaze-riddled Government to MP's expenses cheating.

That would all be lost, due to Leveson.

Every Fleet Street title is not currently subject to state control over what they can print. If Ofcome regulate them, they will be

The losers on an enormous scale in this case: the split between Tories and anarcho-capitalist Parliament-haters has been a long time coming, as has that between the corresponding tendencies within the Labour Party.

Here, we have at last the presenting issue. And everyone can see which side is going to win on the floor of the House, in the Labour Party immediately, and in the Conservative Party (or whatever replaces it) very rapidly as a result of the Commons victory.

Your definition of normal people being Rupert Murdoch and the dodgy global megarich who keep the fifth-placed Conservative Party afloat. Rather than the six million British working taxpayers of the trade union movement who fund the first-placed Labour Party.